Illegal Immigrants Try to Fool
Police
It's early morning not far
from the border crossing to
Panama at Paso Canoas -southern
Costa Rica - and an alleged
soccer team is riding to a match
in Palmar Sur - some 100 miles
away -, where actually no rivals
nor fans expect them.
The police
are not fooled and the ruse
fails to get several illegal
immigrants further north, in
their quest for the American
Dream.
The disguises are not new
to Tico agents, who have stopped
illegals posing as peasants, as
tired cyclists, overgrown
high-school students, and so
forth.
They hail from
practically everywhere in the
world, including Moroccans,
Chinese, Ethiopians, Bulgarians,
etc. Illegal immigrants move
through Costa Rica on the way to
the United States, even though
many choose to join the hundreds
of thousands who have settle
here and which are straining the
social services, among other
issues.
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